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in japan. i know all of you young and old have been watching the full magnitude of this tragedy unfold i want to reiterate america's support for the people of japan who are some of our closest friends and allies. i've said directly to the prime minister of japan that the united states will continue to offer any assistance we can as japan recovers from multiple did sasers and we will stand with the people of japan in the difficult days ahead. >> rose: joining me by phone from japan, from sendai, cnn's anna coren, she has been covering the devastation from the epicenter, sendai city. i am pleased to have her on this broadcast this evening. thank you. >> rose: you're very welcome, charlie. os r>> >> rose: tell me what we should know about the situation on the ground? >> well, we've been a little north of sendai in the last couple days and that's where we've seen mass devastation on an enormousel scale house after house, street after stet has been wiped out. and the power of the tsunami is just inc
in japan. i know all of you young and old have been watching the full magnitude of this tragedy unfold i want to reiterate america's support for the people of japan who are some of our closest friends and allies. i've said directly to the prime minister of japan that the united states will continue to offer any assistance we can as japan recovers from multiple did sasers and we will stand with the people of japan in the difficult days ahead. >> rose: joining me by phone from japan, from...
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japan made the mistake at several keyjunctures during the 1990's. charlie, if there's one crucial judgment that i thk people making macro-economic policy have to come to terms with, it's this: policy is making a balance. and you have to decide whether what you're most conceed about. some people are most concerned about the errors of the 1970s, too much liquidity, too many deficits, too much inflation, of the kind of stagflation that came at the end of jimmy carter's presidency. others are concerned about the mistakes of the 1930's or the mistakes japan made in the 1990s of an economy that simply stalls out because there isn't enough demand, and even with a zero interest rate, removing that barrier to investment just never fully takes off. and my judgment for the first time in my professional lifetime is that, for the united states, the much greater risk is on the side of making the mistake that japan made, not to do enough. and i think the people who are fighting the war of the late 1970's are withhe stf intentions and with a legit made concern by p
japan made the mistake at several keyjunctures during the 1990's. charlie, if there's one crucial judgment that i thk people making macro-economic policy have to come to terms with, it's this: policy is making a balance. and you have to decide whether what you're most conceed about. some people are most concerned about the errors of the 1970s, too much liquidity, too many deficits, too much inflation, of the kind of stagflation that came at the end of jimmy carter's presidency. others are...
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we would like to encourage other to friend especially united states, japan, korea, european union to come and invest and to make a certain balance. >> rose: do you have any kind of relationship with north korea? >> yes, we do have. >> rose: have influence with them? >> to say influence is a little bit sort of are difficult but we have good relations with them and we do rur v our embassy in pyongyang. we do have cultural exchange events. and we do have economic sort of commissions and trade commissions to work together. and we would like to contribute to this relation twin six party talks or beyond the six party talks and we have conveyed a number of meetings, bilateral meetings between north korea andor countries in the region. so we have that kind of special relations and we try to keep this channel warm. >> rose: national security concerns. do you have any? you have a standing snaerpl >> we do have a standing army in a certain limited way but the thing is we... we do not have a major political and territorial and other problems, for instance with our neighbors. >> rose: so you have
we would like to encourage other to friend especially united states, japan, korea, european union to come and invest and to make a certain balance. >> rose: do you have any kind of relationship with north korea? >> yes, we do have. >> rose: have influence with them? >> to say influence is a little bit sort of are difficult but we have good relations with them and we do rur v our embassy in pyongyang. we do have cultural exchange events. and we do have economic sort of...
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japan -- >> were you surprised, though, at the japanese? >> japan is a very high saving economy. it's true they have a very high level of debt but japan's main challenge-- and this is true, really, everywhere-- is how they're going to grow in the future, how to make sure they can achieve a level of growth as the population ages, that can support those obligations and that's going to be a challenge for them, like many countries. let's come to the united states because it's so important. i think that americans in policy understand that-- and i think it is a if-- it is the dominant-- much greater recognition across the american political system that our fiscal position is unsustainable ov the long run, and it's going to require a substantial set of challenges to the balance between our resources and commitments to bring that under control. and we're in the process of trying to figure out how we can build a consensus to make that happen in a way that's going to be farm, and preserve strong fundamentals for future growth. our system has a lot of strengths in terms of how we make fisca
japan -- >> were you surprised, though, at the japanese? >> japan is a very high saving economy. it's true they have a very high level of debt but japan's main challenge-- and this is true, really, everywhere-- is how they're going to grow in the future, how to make sure they can achieve a level of growth as the population ages, that can support those obligations and that's going to be a challenge for them, like many countries. let's come to the united states because it's so...
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europe and japan growth is much weaker still. most people expect those economies to grow between 1% and 1.5% which is a very slow recovery. the united states the picture is next. right now i think most economists thing think we're growing at a rate of about 2%. but if you look ahead and you saw the blue chip forecasters this morning, the private forecasters, average private forecasters say they expect the economy to strengthen to 11, grow about 3. that's not fast enough for us. we want it to be faster and we still have a lot of work to do to heal the damage caused by the crisis and try to get more americans back to work more quickly and make sure that we're growing sustainably in the future. but the american economy, it's healing. parts of it look very strong and impressive now if you look at high tech, you look at manufacturing, look at agriculture. you look at industrial production. they came out of the crisis much more quickly, really quite strong. even private investment growth that slowed a bit, even private investment growt
europe and japan growth is much weaker still. most people expect those economies to grow between 1% and 1.5% which is a very slow recovery. the united states the picture is next. right now i think most economists thing think we're growing at a rate of about 2%. but if you look ahead and you saw the blue chip forecasters this morning, the private forecasters, average private forecasters say they expect the economy to strengthen to 11, grow about 3. that's not fast enough for us. we want it to be...
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. >> right after world war ii the guy who founded sony made the mission japan known for quality. this was a time when japan was known for cheap, copycat products and murray teson didn't say we're going to make sony known for quality, we're going to make japan known for quality, he chose a mission that was bigger than sony. we have a similar idea in mind. we want other companies to look at amazon and see us as a standard bearer for obsessive focus on the customer as opposed to obsessive focus on the competitor. that's one of the reasons we work on differentiated products. it's one of the reasons we take a long-term viewpoint on things. you can't really do the right thing for customers if you're short-term oriented and if you're going to invent new things you've also got to be able -- this goes along with long-term orientation, you've got to be able to endure a lot of criticism. kindle is a good example. if you're going to put your back into reinventing a 500-year-old industry, some folks are going to get ornery. >> charlie: it was feared by people that had your stock that once wal
. >> right after world war ii the guy who founded sony made the mission japan known for quality. this was a time when japan was known for cheap, copycat products and murray teson didn't say we're going to make sony known for quality, we're going to make japan known for quality, he chose a mission that was bigger than sony. we have a similar idea in mind. we want other companies to look at amazon and see us as a standard bearer for obsessive focus on the customer as opposed to obsessive...
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he can't open a restaurant in japan. in three, four years, all the data, the three professors we have here in new york, the five that are allocate on the project in japan, a total of eight employees that he has, and three to be a graduate program in his school for those chefs who want to cook with the same integrity and purity outside of japan. >> rose: located here in new york. >> outside of japan. >> rose: and so what-- how did-- when did you decide to create the restaurant? >> well, that was seven years ago at we had that conversation and we both looked at each other and said this is great. ask so his students who are going to take this extra graduate two years will now choose where they'll cook but with the same levels that they would cook in jan, hopefully outside. >> rose: just for the sake of how is it different of other cooking schools, other culinary institutes, whether it's paris or new york or wherever it might be? >> well, the sji cooking school started by teaching only french this japan because mr. suji ate
he can't open a restaurant in japan. in three, four years, all the data, the three professors we have here in new york, the five that are allocate on the project in japan, a total of eight employees that he has, and three to be a graduate program in his school for those chefs who want to cook with the same integrity and purity outside of japan. >> rose: located here in new york. >> outside of japan. >> rose: and so what-- how did-- when did you decide to create the restaurant?...
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which used to cause such fear in america, japan's financial structure did not grow up with its economy so a like a child outgrowing a pair of shoes you have the tremendous grief and problems and chinese know what happened to japan, they are trying to avoid the same fate but it is going to make sure you have -- >> rose: where is japan today? >> in a mess. >> rose: in a mess. and it has been in a mess for how many years. >> about two decades. >> rose: two decades and what is the lesson of japan? >> about sitting on your hands. >> rose: the decades of problem. >> if you get intosome any fication in the economy and pour bad after good money, and you pretend the problem is not there, it is a mentality that is hard to address or fix and they are trying to use shock and awe in this central bank ba zoo seek a to deal with it but the structural problems, although they are significant. >> rose: over the long-term, beyond 2015, would you put your money on japan or china, or india or china? >> beyond 2015 i would say india, before that china. >> rose: exactly that's what i thought too. >> the demo
which used to cause such fear in america, japan's financial structure did not grow up with its economy so a like a child outgrowing a pair of shoes you have the tremendous grief and problems and chinese know what happened to japan, they are trying to avoid the same fate but it is going to make sure you have -- >> rose: where is japan today? >> in a mess. >> rose: in a mess. and it has been in a mess for how many years. >> about two decades. >> rose: two decades and...
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japan in retaliation until japan gave it up. so what's basically happened in asia over the last six months is that china has really been flexing its muscles. after years, charlie, in which people said, "oh, china has so outfox it had americans, it's been so smart about its soft power and what not." the result of this is basically all of the southeast asian nations have suddenly looked at the united states and said "would you guys mind coming out for a visit? secretary clinton, president obama, please stop here." and that's really the context, the strategic context now. i think a lot of the southeast asian nations from india to japan, from korea to vietnam are really looking to have the united states visibly openly involved in the neighborhood as a counterbalance to china. >> rose: and the president welcomes that opportunity? and how does he count it so that china doesn't see it as a threat to them? >> well, exactly. you know, none of them... it's very subtle, charlie. it's not like containment of the soviet union. i would call i
japan in retaliation until japan gave it up. so what's basically happened in asia over the last six months is that china has really been flexing its muscles. after years, charlie, in which people said, "oh, china has so outfox it had americans, it's been so smart about its soft power and what not." the result of this is basically all of the southeast asian nations have suddenly looked at the united states and said "would you guys mind coming out for a visit? secretary clinton,...
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. >> rose: does that put them where japan is or a few inchs-- or where we assume japan is. >> a lot short than japan. >> rose: your judgment is they will stop short of making nuclear weapons? >> if i had to have one choice, but i wouldn't bet my national policy on that. i would make a national policy if i-- if i were still in government that had the breadth to cover both possibilities because as i said, iran hasn't made up its mind. we don't know who will win in this argument so we have to be ready either way. >> rose: iran has not made up its mind. >> iran has not made up its mind. the supreme court leader has not yet spoken. >> rose: your judgment is we have to look at all possibilities. >> yes, right. >> rose: and you don't believe the decision has been made to stop because it's the decision of a supreme court leader and he hasn't made the decision and communicated it to ahmadinejad. the revolutionary guard-- >> the nuclear power structures. that's where it is right now, yeah, germany. and i hope he does the right thing for his hat trick. >> rose: mao do we influence that since we don'
. >> rose: does that put them where japan is or a few inchs-- or where we assume japan is. >> a lot short than japan. >> rose: your judgment is they will stop short of making nuclear weapons? >> if i had to have one choice, but i wouldn't bet my national policy on that. i would make a national policy if i-- if i were still in government that had the breadth to cover both possibilities because as i said, iran hasn't made up its mind. we don't know who will win in this...
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basicay embargo on all oil sa1s and i think there is a coern th you can have like agc situation like japan, going into the second wor warhere you had a full ego on japanese oil mi in from indonesia and lacoed out with pearl harbor, a lotof people forget that thic was kind of what happened before the japanese move, t t amount of the financial pressu on iran is so intensec now and li vic s saying it is not what they can't buy, can they do any kind of global transactions when you target seo's central bank a lot of people@ think that is an act of war and what, how the anians, are they just going to t back? is this ally just bluster because we @d it before or sort of entering a new phase where the financial war is so intense that they almost feel that they have no cic n respond in some waga and possibly in the investigates of zero hmuz or in the gulf would be the most likely place. >> rose: david there your own sources from the government and europe is there a growing concern abou iran being a b might do something crazy in a momentfhc conict? >> .. >> y, i think there isconcern that ira1 might
basicay embargo on all oil sa1s and i think there is a coern th you can have like agc situation like japan, going into the second wor warhere you had a full ego on japanese oil mi in from indonesia and lacoed out with pearl harbor, a lotof people forget that thic was kind of what happened before the japanese move, t t amount of the financial pressu on iran is so intensec now and li vic s saying it is not what they can't buy, can they do any kind of global transactions when you target seo's...
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focused domestically our governments on our economies and the united states, europe and japan and also, of course, we are pivoting away from the middle east toward asia and the markets don't like the fact that economics are on top of each other this year and make them more scared than ey should be, in other words, fear is actually the single biggest risk in 2012, it is not that the big things are blowing up, the euro zone isn't going to blow up, the united states is actually doing better than people think, china is not going to have a hard landing and yet all of the headline risk around political volatility is keeping money on the sidelines, it is keeping people investing in gold and it is stopping the global economy from developing the way it probably should. >> rose: these are things you called red herrings. >> that's right. >> they are not going to have the potential for explosion that we might presume, let me list them here .. because i have them. they are 2012 political transitions, elections in mention mexico, venezuela, kenya, and maybe egypt, political ansitions in the u.s., ru
focused domestically our governments on our economies and the united states, europe and japan and also, of course, we are pivoting away from the middle east toward asia and the markets don't like the fact that economics are on top of each other this year and make them more scared than ey should be, in other words, fear is actually the single biggest risk in 2012, it is not that the big things are blowing up, the euro zone isn't going to blow up, the united states is actually doing better than...
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. >> charlie: japan -- >> you're out in san francisco. so much of america has been hollowed out socially from the fact that we fly from new york to los angeles and san francisco. the whole part of the country, cleveland, detroit, they're dying. chicago's always going to be an interesting exception but they all can be reunited across the continent with rapid rail with fast right away the whole thing they have in other countries. it requires imminent domain and a dramatic president can do that and if you don't you say it's for 18 and silicon valley and the hot shot kids out of the good schools and if you say that you say good-bye to a political base and you lose the next election. >> i don't think rail and even manufacturing maybe is not -- pittsburgh, a city doing pretty well actually, we do as much manufacturing as we ever did it's because of technology we don't need the people and the question is what do we do with the people? we should build up the manufacturing base but we shouldn't imagine it's a panacea for the people needing jobs. >
. >> charlie: japan -- >> you're out in san francisco. so much of america has been hollowed out socially from the fact that we fly from new york to los angeles and san francisco. the whole part of the country, cleveland, detroit, they're dying. chicago's always going to be an interesting exception but they all can be reunited across the continent with rapid rail with fast right away the whole thing they have in other countries. it requires imminent domain and a dramatic president...
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japan is a country nobody questioning. and germany is a country --. >> rose: those are three countries that have the possibility. >> well, and holland and argentina, you know. >> rose: how many are there that within month kos have nuclear weapons if they wanted to. >> well, you have the nine weapon states which already have nuclear weapons but you have a number of others. you have gentina, brazil, japan, germany, you have holland. i mean, and you have --. >> rose: they all could have nuclear weapons within months >> they have the capacity. they have the capacity. >> rose: they have the enriched material and they have the know-how. >> right, exactly. and that as i said, it's a margin of security, too close for comfort. and iran brought that issue to the surface, you know, can we live under that system of security that you go all the way and then you say, you know, i'm not developing nuclear weapon, which is fine. but if your security perception changes in the next couple of months, you know, you are able to -- you know, so
japan is a country nobody questioning. and germany is a country --. >> rose: those are three countries that have the possibility. >> well, and holland and argentina, you know. >> rose: how many are there that within month kos have nuclear weapons if they wanted to. >> well, you have the nine weapon states which already have nuclear weapons but you have a number of others. you have gentina, brazil, japan, germany, you have holland. i mean, and you have --. >> rose:...
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japan was exactly that japan did it first. >> rose: all right. let's go, pull back and look at where we are. the forecast that has come out of this meeting, tell me what it is, and you have said i think that light recovery, spring winds and dark clouds ahead. >> yeah. you know, it's all based on work that is done within its imf. we have a terrific research department o livia with us here and area departments that have really, you know, their fingers on the pulse of countries. and we try to do as good a job as we can to forecast what's coming. we see better numbers coming out of the united states, you know. better employment, more importantly, reduced unemployment. better manufacturing numbers, so there is some good movement. >> slight recovery. >> and the europeans have done quite a lot. sickly since the beginning of the year, you know with this big refinancing scheme launched by the your pone central bank. the firewall that they finally decided to reinforce significantly. so all of that, attenuated the financial tensions that there was on the, o
japan was exactly that japan did it first. >> rose: all right. let's go, pull back and look at where we are. the forecast that has come out of this meeting, tell me what it is, and you have said i think that light recovery, spring winds and dark clouds ahead. >> yeah. you know, it's all based on work that is done within its imf. we have a terrific research department o livia with us here and area departments that have really, you know, their fingers on the pulse of countries. and we...
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some peoplsay, look, we may be japan. because they thought... well, you explain what they did. >> well, the japanese decided not to have anyone lose money if they could help it. they did everything to push the problem into the future. they didn't clean up their balance sheets. people compare japan to the swedes and nordics when they had a crisis. they quickly cleaned up the balance sheet, they did this good bank/bad bank stuff to get the junk off the books. reprivatize it had banks and booms, things were rolling. the japanese waited and in many ways we are looking more like the japanese. we're doing a lot of things better but we, too, didn't want anyone to lose money, we didn't want to restructure and that's a challenge we face. >> my impression is that we also... they stopped curative methods earlier than they should have. >> well, you know, it's easy to say with hindsight. maybe we will. i mean, they thought they were coming out of the crisis, then they were back in the crisis, it's very easy to look at it with hindsight. people say "we're bet
some peoplsay, look, we may be japan. because they thought... well, you explain what they did. >> well, the japanese decided not to have anyone lose money if they could help it. they did everything to push the problem into the future. they didn't clean up their balance sheets. people compare japan to the swedes and nordics when they had a crisis. they quickly cleaned up the balance sheet, they did this good bank/bad bank stuff to get the junk off the books. reprivatize it had banks and...
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and so even though japan lost the war, that same mentality in many case it is same teachers taught a new generation after the war, and that new generation was then kind of cemented together in 1960, you can be very precise, because the japanese state then organized a world design conference where it confnted its own japanese avant garde with the worldwide avant garde, so it was to some extent that is what the book really revea, because we are also talking to civil servants and to bureaucrats an to government people that acally the architects themselves were of course individual and ver creative people, but the govement orchestrated their appearance on the international scene. and then that is not unlike things, the way in which in america, for instance, it promoted modern architecture, modern art and modern arts, in general. >> rose: and so what were the distinguishing characteristics of this architecture? >> i think the distinguishing characteristics and that is also something we constructed that we looked at japan as a whole, so its vulnerabilities, japan is very prone to earthquak
and so even though japan lost the war, that same mentality in many case it is same teachers taught a new generation after the war, and that new generation was then kind of cemented together in 1960, you can be very precise, because the japanese state then organized a world design conference where it confnted its own japanese avant garde with the worldwide avant garde, so it was to some extent that is what the book really revea, because we are also talking to civil servants and to bureaucrats an...
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japan reminded me... this is a whole different conversation of a finely machined watch that you admired its precision but you couldn't jump in the machinery yourself. >> rose: my thanks to jim fallows and stephen roach. thank you very much. >> thank you, charlie. >> thank you, charlie. >> rose: pat tillman became a household name in 2002 when he abandoned a promising n.f.l. career to join the u.s. army rangers. his death in afghanistan in 2004 sent shock waves throughout the country. the military initially said he died in an enemy ambush. five weeks later they admitted he had been killed by friendly fire. much about tillman's death remained a mystery. a new documentary "the tillman story" recounts the efforts of his family to understand the truth about his final moments. "the tillman story" also reveals a complex man who was ambivalent about being a national hero. here's a look at the documentary. >> pat tillman loved the game of football. he loved america even more. >> pat tillman was the most famous enl
japan reminded me... this is a whole different conversation of a finely machined watch that you admired its precision but you couldn't jump in the machinery yourself. >> rose: my thanks to jim fallows and stephen roach. thank you very much. >> thank you, charlie. >> thank you, charlie. >> rose: pat tillman became a household name in 2002 when he abandoned a promising n.f.l. career to join the u.s. army rangers. his death in afghanistan in 2004 sent shock waves throughout...